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A Match Made in Heaven: British Muslim Women Write About Love and Desire - by Claire Chambers, Nafhesa Ali & Richard Phillips (Editors)

£10.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781916467194 | ISBN 10: 1916467199

Star-studded and beautifully written, this collection of diverse stories about love and desire by South Asian-heritage British Muslim women authors, including Ayisha Malik and Shelina Janmohamed. Although outsiders often expect Muslim women ... more
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We Have Always Been Here - by Samra Habib

£9.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781529404869 | ISBN 10: 152940486x

Triumphant and uplifting – a queer Muslim memoir about forgiveness and freedom. A memoir of hope, faith and love, Samra Habib’s story starts with growing up as part of a threatened minority sect in Pakistan, and follows her arrival in Cana ... more
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It's Not About the Burqa: Muslim Women on Faith, Feminism, Sexuality and Race - by Mariam Khan (Editor)

£9.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781509886425 | ISBN 10: 1509886427

When was the last time you heard a Muslim woman speak for herself without a filter? In 2016, Mariam Khan read that David Cameron had linked the radicalization of Muslim men to the ‘traditional submissiveness’ of Muslim women. Mariam felt pre ... more
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I Was Told To Come Alone: My Journey Behind the Lines of Jihad - by Souad Mekhennet

£9.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780349008370 | ISBN 10: 034900837x

Souad Mekhennet is a German-born Moroccan Muslim, a Washington Post correspondent, still based in Germany. This is her brave and powerful memoir. Her life and her quest are nothing less than THE modern story. I was told to come alone. I was not ... more
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Princess: Secrets to Share - by Jean Sasson

£7.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780857503084 | ISBN 10: 0857503081

After the recent success of Princess, More Tears to Cry the Princess Al-Saud and Jean Sasson are collaborating on this new book to bring readers up to date not only with the Princess and her family but the stories and experiences of characters who fo ... more
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Women and Shari'a Law - by Elham Manea

£12.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781784537357 | ISBN 10: 1784537357

In response to recent media controversy and public debate about legal pluralism and multiculturalism, Manea argues against what she identifies as the growing tendency for people to be treated as 'homogenous groups' in Western academic discourse, rath ... more
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Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now - by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

£8.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780062333940 | ISBN 10: 0062333941

Continuing her journey from a deeply religious Islamic upbringing to a post at Harvard, the brilliant, charismatic and controversial New York Times and Globe and Mail #1 bestselling author of Infidel and Nomad makes a powerful plea for a Muslim Refor ... more
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Do Muslim Women Need Saving? - by Lila Abu-Lughod

£16.95 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780674088269 | ISBN 10: 0674088263

Frequent reports of honor killings, disfigurement, and sensational abuse have given rise to a consensus in the West, a message propagated by human rights groups and the media: Muslim women need to be rescued. Lila Abu-Lughod boldly challenges this co ... more
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Infidel: My Life - by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

£9.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781416526247 | ISBN 10: 1416526242

In this profoundly affecting memoir from the internationally renowned author of The Caged Virgin, Ayaan Hirsi Ali tells her astonishing life story, from her traditional Muslim childhood in Somalia to her intellectual awakening in the Netherlands, to ... more
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Amina - by Mohammed Umar

£17.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781592214044 | ISBN 10: 1592214045

This dramatic story of the efforts of the heroine and her friends to bring about change in the social conditions of women in Nigeria addresses pressing political issues which rarely appear in fiction - the legal status of Muslim women, the limitation ... more
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From My Sisters' Lips - by Na'ima, B Robert

£8.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780553817171 | ISBN 10: 0553817175

Covered from head to toe, with only her eyes visible, the sight of a Muslim woman on a Western city street rarely fails to provoke a strong reaction. Feelings of shock, horror, revulsion, pity - or even fear - are not uncommon. But have you ever wond ... more
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